LibreOffice Interoperability Strong & Weak Points Cor Nouws Nou&Off The Netherlands
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Interoperability is.. Above all: nót suffering from a lock-in by a proprietary file format.. but for the time that ODF is not yet leading LibreOffice has to circumvent the issue So interoperability.. LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 3
.. is how serious? Number of people having issues User (home, work, skills) Easy/hard to workaround Not opening at all Type of work, send only, exchange, co-work LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 4
.. is how important? Perfection needed at any time? Image or text shifted a bit.. Most communication read-only > PDF! Fall back available MsOffice viewers, spare copy MsOffice Online PDF-creation services LibreOffice online But in the end: Editable file exchanges & complexity of files.. dó count! And often there is no properly & smart designed document LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 5
However, but, yes.. still.. Most of the times it s nót the end of the world, if track changes can t be used After all people work on so many devises with limitations And the user itself How does she act to solve a problem? How much is he distracted or not.. Just shouting out the document doesn t work?! Is it an emotional issue, perception, partly? May be, but.. what is easier to change, technical issues or people ;) LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 6
So we start improving.. Which is a good thing after all Less issues, also smaller ones, widen our audience fast However, fixes sometimes cause of diclose other bugs Then for fixing there is a long way to go LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 7
Let s have a look at an example LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 8
A real life example in 8 steps.. Dutch Government Should be ODF, but... Version 3.6 LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 9
Image..? Version 4.0 LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 10
Ah, much more info already Hé, frame with text box Version 4.2 LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 11
Better frames maybe.. But..??? Version 4.3 LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 12
Ah wow :) Hmm :(..? Version 4.4 LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 13
Oops..? Version 5.0, 5.1 LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 14
Nice.. Good! Ehh..? Version 5.2 LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 15
And now in 530-master Don t touch this anymore ;) LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 16
Do we have data? LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 17
What does BugZilla tell us? Issues for various components Query for proper keywords, file formats, fileopen in summary Disclaimer: relying on proper triage, summaries Not confirmed is not included, duplicates-not-yet-marked are.. * Resolved & Fixed Confirmed & Not Fixed Writer 177 270 Math 6 18 Calc 4 18 Chart 35 18 Impress 4 32 *) numbers in the table link to the queries in BugZilla LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 18
Items more mentioned for components Math, Charts, Impress Math Characters, size/rendering Charts Borders Axis Labels Font effects Impress Animations Shapes/SmartArt Text rendering Invalid saving All a bit mixed. No items that really strike LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 19
Items more mentioned in Calc Hyperlinks Filelinks RTL Pivot table Colors Row height Controls Again: all a bit mixed. No items that really strike LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 20
Items more mentioned for Writer Objects Images, Frames, OLE, Shapes, SmartArt Page formatting Headers/footers, Headers/footers with objects Paragraphs Indent, Spacing, Tabs, Bullets/Numbering Tables Width, Rotated text, Wrapping around, Nested Forms Lists, Outline numbering Confirmed and not resolved alone, Cross references count for 270 bugs.. Foot notes LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 21
So what s with objects Images, Frames, OLE, Shapes, SmartArt Wrapping For those items Positioning allone we count Ordering 53 bugs.. Especially with more frames, images Especially combined and in header/footers, tables Less severe/frequent: Visibility Rotation (Text)Rendering Have a strong influence on quality of documents LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 22
Bit more general data Critial / Major Writer 31 Math 1 Calc 3 Chart 6 Impress 2 LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 23
Why Writer? Widely used For all kind of tasks By anyone With all possible tricks After all, many still know how to use a type writer :) LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 24
Let s see another reall life example.. LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 25
An extreme example.. Summary in BugZilla: Docx files from Ms Word not opened in LibreOffice.. I quitted LibreOffice after 5 minutes But found later: in MsOffice it takes ~10 minutes :) LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 26
And this is how it looks in Word > 250 pages full with frames to constuct tables LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 27
LibreOffice 3.3.0.4 did it faster, but.. Not placed as designed and no text at all LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 28
And don t forget fonts! Nearly perfect; only one paragraph too much But without the weird fonts and all spaces etc it was aweful Often causes issues in Impress LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 29
Only three slides left, with.. LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 30
If only... Idea: Font-telltale warn for missing fonts! Top wishes Images, object, frames (with anchored content etc) Paragraph distance, indent My take on this: Investigate the 100-200 issues Header/footer issues create set of reference test with ~simple but comprehensive SmartArt and docs and issues and showing a much better to digest list from the query:) Highly impressed and pleased by: OSBA s Interoperability contributions Miloš Šrámek s automated bisection of interoperability regressions Michael Stahl s Functional Document Testing Many other developers hard work in this area LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 31
Grow the area where LibreOffice fits excellent Work flow / tasks + User skills +.. Quality of Interoperability! LibreOffice Interoperability - Strong & Weak Points / 32
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